Merlin Linehan

Geopolitics ~ Climate Capital ~ Global Risks ~ Resilience

[Merlin Linehan @MerlinLinehan]

An interesting read: Germany is "friendshoring" through outsourcing key car manufacturing to Morocco, a close friendly neighbour, rather then rely on geopolitically exposed Asian partners. Also learnt that Morocco exports cobalt - an important ingredient in electric batteries

[Prof. Michael Tanchum @michaeltanchum]

🇲🇦🇩🇪 'Made in Germany' is becoming 'Made in Morocco'

➡️"#Germany’s Expanding Partnership with #Morocco: Strengthening Supply Chain Resilience is the Driving Factor"

My latest article via @MIPAInstitute
👉https://t.co/QSrbeYHmTq

#supplychains #geoeconomics #geopolitics

[StopFundingHeat @stopfundingheat]

The Sun casually likening supporters of climate action to "Nazis"... Today's Sun advertisers include @CoopUK @Tesco @McDonalds @Lloydsbank #Lotto @Morrisons @BandQ @Asda & @Samsung

[StopFundingHeat @stopfundingheat]

Remarkable long read in @FT last week, going behind the scenes at GB News.

Among the eye-opening details:
📉 total losses have now exceeded £100m
🏃‍♂️ big name advertisers are wary
🚻 a fun irony: their loos are gender-neutral

Full article (paywalled): https://t.co/QgAsIReqjQ

[StopFundingHeat @stopfundingheat]

WATCH: Nigel Farage using his GB News platform to cast doubt on the 'assumption' that climate change is happening

(Spoiler, Nigel: climate change IS happening. It's not an assumption, it's overwhelming scientific consensus)

[StopFundingHeat @stopfundingheat]

It’s essentially a ‘how-to’ guide for stirring up unrest in other countries.

The brief includes a list of ‘creative means’ to roll out the strategy – such as:
- fake videos 👀
- comments on social media 👀👀
- news and pseudo-news 👀👀👀👀

[StopFundingHeat @stopfundingheat]

Today's Daily Telegraph has a bizarre article claiming there is a "war on cheap energy", and attacking "net zero fanatics" who it says "want to raise the cost of heating"...🤔

Today's Telegraph advertisers include @Dyson @Boodles @SkiptonBS & @SagaUK

[Dr Steven Buckley @StevenJCBuckley]

True cognitive dissonance.

[Merlin Linehan @MerlinLinehan]

@samirsaran @orfonline @AmritaNarlikar Congratulations @AmritaNarlikar

[StopFundingHeat @stopfundingheat]

Shocking new exposé from @Desmog reveals the BBC's financial links to the fossil fuel industry.

Surely Britain's public service broadcaster should serve the interests of the public - not those of oil and gas producers who are putting all of our futures at risk?

[StopFundingHeat @stopfundingheat]

'NET ZERO MADNESS' – more irresponsible broadcasting from GB News…

#netzero #edmiliband #media #madness #wordsmatter #redflag

[Merlin Linehan @MerlinLinehan]

Excellent thread debunking the Telegraph's latest anti-net zero article. Telegraph has moved on from straight climate change denialism to trying to undermine net-zero policies

[Jess Ralston @jessralston2]

Yesterday the @Telegraph published a comment piece by Viscount Matt Ridley about renewable energy, littered with misleading claims.

What to make of it? 🧵

[Merlin Linehan @MerlinLinehan]

Very interesting analysis of and Nepal's balancing act between the two giants that sandwich it - China appears to be more favoured at the moment, but my view is that any Nepali govt must keep good relations with both nations and avoid "taking sides" as much as possible

[Jagannath Panda, 潘杰根 | Ph.D. @jppjagannath1]

Is #China gaining an irreversible edge over #India in the neighborhood? Latest piece @Diplomat_APAC with @SK_Aryal https://t.co/2temUTYkSr @ISDP_Sweden @hcssnl @ycapsjapan

[Jagannath Panda, 潘杰根 | Ph.D. @jppjagannath1]

Is #China gaining an irreversible edge over #India in the neighborhood? Latest piece @Diplomat_APAC with @SK_Aryal https://t.co/2temUTYkSr @ISDP_Sweden @hcssnl @ycapsjapan

[Jess Ralston @jessralston2]

An opinion piece in the @Telegraph on Friday by Lord Lilley posed a series of (frankly misleading) 'questions' about clean energy

(Lilley is a former trustee at climate-denial group Global Warming Policy Foundation)

Let's try and answer them for him... 🧵

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

Good morning with good news: China's solar capacity rose 51.1% by June 2024, compared to June 2023. China's wind capacity is up 19.9% year-on-year.

China installed 100 GW of solar in first half of 2024, reaching 100 GW milestone a month earlier than in the incredible 2023! Wow!

[Bob Ward @ret_ward]

Good to see @DavidGHFrost unabashed by the experience of seeing the harm caused by his advice on Brexit, which has helped to slow the British economy, now offering disastrous advice about British energy policy.

[Merlin Linehan @MerlinLinehan]

@stopfundingheat @coopuk @holland_barrett @VodafoneUK @TheAA_UK While growth in green jobs is now increasing around four times as fast as the overall UK employment - market - hardly a job destroying sector https://t.co/JuZtUxyiUF

[Merlin Linehan @MerlinLinehan]

@stopfundingheat @coopuk @holland_barrett @VodafoneUK @TheAA_UK North sea oil is sold on the global market, producing in the UK does not protect consumers from prices increases as we saw during the invasion of Ukraine where the UK government had to pay huge sums to reduce costs for consumers while oil companies enjoyed bumper profits

[Merlin Linehan @MerlinLinehan]

Dear @holland_barrett as company with strong climate policies such as buying 100% of energy from renewable sources please reconsider funding climate mis-formation in newspapers as shown below, I am a regular customer but will look elsewhere now https://t.co/wa2mC74tLq

[StopFundingHeat @stopfundingheat]

Today's Daily Mail - whose events arm runs conferences for fossil fuel companies - continues its attacks on climate action & clean energy...

Today's Daily Mail advertisers include @CoopUK @Holland_Barrett @VodafoneUK & @TheAA_UK

[Lucy Hall @cuttingsticking]

Dear @SteveReedMP, Year 4 @ReayPrimary are very excited to hear that you’re putting cleaning up our rivers and seas as your number one priority. Y4 are especially concerned about plastic pollution and have written to you about this issue. Here are some examples of their letters.